Judy Landers

I am sure that most younger people do not realize just what a special thing Judy Landers was to many males over the years. She was drop dead sexy, proportionately flawless, and one of the first women to wear tight and sexy lingerie on commercial television. In the days when cable was still hard to get... her in skimpy gear was considered scandalous (and heart pounding!).

The television show "Madam's Place" had Judy running around in tight shorts and tops, sweet girlish dresses, silky and ready to split panties and lingerie. It came on at midnight and I'll lay money that many a teenage boy crept down to watch it after their parents went to bed... carrying with them a cloth and a jar of Vaseline.

She was also on Vega$ and B.J. and the Bear, Buck Rogers, Happy Days, The Fall Guy, Fantasy Island, Knight Rider, The Love Boat, Chips... and ... well... just about everywhere else.

She was a sex symbol. A real one. The kind that made you sweat at night in bed, the image of her burning your eyelids, made you toss and turn and molest your pillow. The kind of woman that made you hit puberty or look over at your mate and want a divorce.

The fall of this sex symbol I attribute to lack of nudity. Judy was just too sexy in a time when nudity was becoming more rampant in the industry. For her not to do nudity was a career killer.

The final straw for many people, I think, was when she and her sister (Audrey Landers of Dallas fame) posed for Playboy. To say the least... the Playboy shoot was a fiasco.

Nether of the two showed anything in the layout. They covered themselves in each and every picture. It was an insult to fans that could not be forgiven. To pose for Playboy and show nothing...?! Bullshit.

Her career started to wane soon after that shoot. Less and less were there demands for the sex symbol of old. Men were dead tired of being teased to near madness (I wrote of this phenomena in my article series called "The Tease Factor").

Sex symbol to bit parts, with lower and lower positions on the credits. Then we heard that she was going to be fully nude in the 1989 made for cable movie called "Ghost Writer". She was indeed fully nude... but once again covered herself the whole time with her hands. It killed (at least for me) the last vestiges of hope for her.

Since then, I have never intentionally watched another Judy Landers project.

At this writing Judy's last known work was in 2006's "Circus Camp" which she wrote with her sister Audrey.

Where is she now: (07/02/2008)

Still a good looking woman!